There is a ton of debate on the identity of the artwork "Girl With a Pearl Earring," and although years have passed, there is no exact answer to the mystery. However, the reading passage presents three possible figures. In the listening passage, the lecturer is quick to indicate that there are some significant flaws in the writer's claim. The professor believes that the girl may have been a stranger. He addresses the trouble in detail with each point made in the reading text.
To begin with, the most likely candidate is Maria Vermeer, the eldest daughter of the painting itself. The author explains that masterpieces focus on daily scenes, so the possibility of painting his daughter is not impossible. Some professionals in the same field, regardless, stand in firm opposition to this claim. For example, in the listening, the professor states that his figures are diverse and include a wide range of women, from maids to mistresses. Thus, there would be no reason to submit to a confined person like his daughter.
One group of scholars, represented by the writer, emphasizes that Pieter Van Ruijiven could be a possible choice since she requested a painting as a wedding gift. Of course, though, not all experts in this field believe this is accurate. Again, the speaker addresses this matter when he argues that it would be unusual to ask the daughter of his patron to dress up in unconventional clothes with pearl earrings when she has grown up in a conservative style. With the contradicting cultural and religious beliefs reflected in the notes observed in the painting, the possibility of the woman being Pieter Van Rujiven is incredibly low.
Finally, the author wraps his argument by positing that the girl was an imaginary character since the characteristics are parallel to the thriller genre. Unsurprisingly, the professor points out that Johannes Vermeer is known to draw those he observes rather than being a virtual witness.
To summarize, while the article introduces three possible theories for the identity of the infamous artwork, the lecturer effectively challenges each one, implying that the theories cannot be accurate. It is evident that both passages will have trouble finding common ground on this subject.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 88, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
... artwork 'Girl With a Pearl Earring,' and although years have passed, there ...
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Message: Consider replacing "in a conservative style" with adverb for "conservative"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, may, so, thus, while, for example, of course, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1894.0 1373.03311258 138% => OK
No of words: 367.0 270.72406181 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16076294278 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82840874996 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 145.348785872 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574931880109 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 579.6 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8980046431 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.222222222 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3888888889 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 7.06452816374 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146978801153 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0395901089318 0.0996497079465 40% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0354136014564 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0778367934985 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0173177652686 0.0443174109184 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 63.6247240618 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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